Hate like no other bubbled inside Phillip as he stared at Karic.
That bastard is with my girl, he thought as he stared at them. The tree was the perfect cover from the other people walking around the garden. But he had been looking for Bella, and he’d seen the yellow of her dress from afar, and then rounded the tree coming from the other side to see what she was up to. He had thought that she saw him coming to the pond, and she was hiding from him. She has been hiding from him lately. He knew why. But he didn’t care.
He wanted her as his. Marian was a marriage of convenience. And he will marry her, because he had to please his father. But that didn’t mean that he couldn’t have what he wanted.
Anger flared making him see red, the more he stared at Karic and Bella. They stood so clo
